THE ARRAKAN HILL-PARTRIDGE. 
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Phcenicoperdix chloropus, given by Mr. Gray from Moulmein (Hand-list^ 
ii. p. 269), is probably the same species. I have been imable to detect 
in the British-Museum collection the specimen referred to by Mr. Gray. 
682. AEBORICOLA INTERMEDIA. 
THE ARRAKAN HILL-PARTRIDGE. 
Arboricola intermedia, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 277 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. Ill ; 
Hu7ne Marsh. Game Birds, ii. p. 85, pi. Arborophila intermedia, Hwm^ 
S. F. ii. p. 450 ; Oafes, S. F. iii. p. 344. 
Description. — Male and female. Throat and fore neck black; below this 
a rufous patch ; breast and upper abdomen dark grey ; ear-coverts_, cheeks ^ 
sides of the neck and feathers under the eye blacky the bases of the feathers 
rufous and showing up ; front of the head as far back as the eyes pale 
grey ; remainder of the head and nape hair-brown^ streaked with black ; 
these streaks increasing in size and on the upper neck becoming large drops^ 
above which are narrow crescentic marks of pale buff ; lores and a broad 
supercilium reaching to the back of the head greyish white, each feather 
with a central black streak ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts glossy 
olive-brown edged darker, and all the feathers except those on the back 
with a small lanceolate spot of black ; sides of the body chestnut,, each 
feather with a large grey patch, inside of which there is a long and narrow 
white streak ; the lower abdomen greyish white ; flanks and thigh-coverts 
pale buff^ with large black spots ; under tail-coverts black at base, white at 
tip ; tail olive-brown mottled with black and the outer feathers tipped with 
white j primaries brown, narrowly edged and tipped with pale buff ; secon- 
daries with broader edges and tips ; tertiaries, scapulars and wing-coverts 
a mixture of chestnut, fulvous and black, the latter colour being in the 
form of large oval spots near the tips. 
Length 11*5 inches, tail 3, wing 5'5, tarsus 1*5, bill from gape I'l. 
There does not appear to be much difference in size between the sexes. 
The Arrakan Hill-Partridge is confined in Burmah, so far as is at present 
known, to the Arrakan hills. All the specimens I have seen were procured 
between Nyoungyeedouk and Nyoungyo, on the road leading from Prome 
to Tonghoop. 
Colonel Godwin- Austen procured it in Cachar and the Naga hills. 
This species is closely allied to the next, but may be distinguished by 
the throat and fore neck being black. 
